De facto states, according to the most established elaborations of the concept, by definition
strive towards full-fledged, internationally recognised independence. However, in many …

Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.| Series: Routledge
contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series; 91| Includes bibliographical references …

What explains the economic endurance of the post-Soviet unrecognized states? Drawing
insights from the scholarship on economic institutions, rentier states, and patron–client …

The scholarship on post-Soviet de facto states has structurally focused on issues related to
their contested status, and has long assumed that these entities are transient phenomena. In …

Somaliland's endurance as Africa's longest de facto state has for decades preoccupied
scholarship on state formation and democratization. The prevailing democratic success …

This paper focuses on the status of post-Soviet non-recognised states, viewed through the
lens of world-system analysis. The author interprets non-recognised states as an 'extreme …

The aim of the article is to analyze Armenia's limited capacity to function as a patron of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). In the article, the author focused on the analysis of 3 …

Some attempts at territorial secession get stuck in the limbo between reintegration and
independence: the secessionists control the territory and population, but are denied …

The Caucasus is defined by its magnificent mountains, its location between the Caspian and
Black Seas and its belonging, both geographically and culturally, to both the Near/Middle …

Between 1993 and 2008, the economy of Abkhazia was subjected to a multiplicity of internal
and external influences. According to the authorities of the de facto state, its stunted growth …